Internet Archive's in-browser bookreader "theater" requires JavaScript to be enabled. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature.

An epistle to a friend, on the means of preserving health, promoting happiness : and prolonging the life of man to its natural period : being a summary view of inconsiderate and useless habits that derange the system of nature, thereby causing premature old age and death : with some thoughts on the best means of preventing and overcoming disease

by: Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827; Aitken, Jane, 1764-1832, printer

Publication date: 1803

Topics: Hygiene, Longevity

Publisher: Philadelphia : From the press of the late R. Aitken, ... by Jane Aitken

Collection: medicalheritagelibrary; medicineintheamericas; usnationallibraryofmedicine; americana

Contributor: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Language: English

Written "on hearing of the indisposition of a person in a public station, whose death would be a public loss ... and having other friends to whom the ideas it contained, might be acceptable [the author] determined to have it printed." - Pref

Film 633 reel 72 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 72, no. 1469)

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints

Shaw & Shoemaker

Microfilm

Will digitize

Condition reviewed